The Road to Innovation

Kevin Coleman is a highly skilled senior level project and program manager/advisor with experience leading projects with labor budgets ranging from a few hundred thousand dollars to multi-million dollar budgets across multiple industries.

  Innovation  

Today’s world is changing rapidly due to emerging technologies and innovation—which has many organizations putting plans in place to stimulate innovation. Other organizations have taken a more conservative approach, putting in place a plan to support innovation rather than stimulate it. With programs like these, you can see the increased important being placed on innovation.

Everyone should be aware that the road to innovation is filled with obstacles, challenges, detours and delays. It’s far from a straight shot, and many individuals and organizations allow themselves to be sidetracked along the way. Below are some of the key challenges that accompany innovation. In addition, the road to innovation is filled with wrong turns; if you are not prepared to make mistakes, you are not ready for the journey of discovery.

Management Support
Innovation is most successful when driven from the bottom up and the top down at the same time; at least that has been my experience. That being said, management should not try to manage innovation. Instead, management must create and maintain an environment where it can prosper. Management often allows themselves to become sidetracked. They need to be visibly supportive of the innovation initiative and people for their hard work, even though they might not choose to move some ideas forward. It is essential that management …

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